The Next Fix

di Kojo Koram (Autore)

John Murray, 2026

How the legalisation of drugs is gearing up to become one of the great swindles of our times. If we legalise drugs, who profits? Who gets exploited? And what gets fixed? As countries around the world turn away from a century-long War on Drugs, issues of addiction, impoverishment and dangerous drug deaths continue to sky-rocket. Instead of advancing the course of social justice, drug law reform is helping hedge funds, tech companies, oil companies and tobacco companies investing in drugs to get even richer. Award-winning author Kojo Koram enters the interconnected worlds of high finance and the cocaine trade, khat with narco-terrorism and the tobacco companies trying to use legal drugs to rebrand themselves as wellness companies, taking us behind the scenes of this new frontier of global capitalism. Chasing the next fix - whether chemical, economic or political - leaves us trapped in cycles of harm and dependency. Breaking free requires moving beyond temporary relief and confronting structural injustice, inequality, and the legacies of empire. With sharp analysis and vivid storytelling, The Next Fix shows that what looks like a cure is often another dose of the same poison. Entering the world of drug policy reform, which brings together contrasting characters from yoga instructors to traditional Rastafarian leaders, investment bankers to policing reform activists, over the chapters Kojo Koram will show that although we might be living through the end of the War on Drugs, the brave new world emerging out of it may, in practice, still look a lot like the old one.

• Autore: Kojo Koram
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 10:00:00
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: John Murray
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9781399807753